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4.00 Credits
This study experience will provide students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Spanish language while exploring Colombian culture, social movements, and history. Students will also study first hand aspects of this country's diverse landscapes, geology, ecology, sustainable agriculture, as well as its approach to public health and environmental challenges. Students will actively participate in public health and environmental-based service learning projects with local community partners. This course will also involve field projects to (1) evaluate the ecosystem services provided by paramos (unique mountain wetlands) and their impact on water quality, (2) quantify the impacts of agriculture on soils, and (3) evaluate the impacts of improper waste disposal in an urban canyon on water quality parameters in the associated stream. Students will further connect these field studies to service learning projects in the same communities by developing and implementing a community survey instrument on public health and perceptions of the environment. Students will then combine their scientific findings with the results of the community survey and their understanding of the culture to develop an educational campaign targeted at elementary students to increase awareness of environmental issues of importance in the community. Through these projects and their observations of the local communities, students will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Latin American culture in this region and examine how the environment and landscape in Colombia influence national social movements. This course fulfills the Engagin the World requirement.
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2.00 Credits
No single lifestyle choice has a more immediate, lasting and significant impact on the environment than our dietary choices. This course examines the ways in which conscious eating makes a personal and global difference. Through research, discussion, shared meals, and practical meal preparation, we will explore how to transform our diets for personal, community, and planetary health. We will be sharing eight meals together. All dietary preferences welcome. Course fee is $95.00
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2.00 Credits
In this course students explore the stories of Utah's national parks and write stories from their experiences exploring these landscapes. Students examine the history of the national park idea and as they write and make photos, videos, and audio to understand these spaces. As part of the class students will spend a week visiting three of the five national parks in Utah - Canyonlands, Arches, and Capitol Reef. Students who participate should be prepared to camp and hike each day during the fieldtrips. The class will meet on campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon from May13 to May 24. And from June 3 to June 7. The field portion of the class will last from May 28 to June 2. Class limited to 10 students. Course fee: $175
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2.00 Credits
Participants in this field course will raft the Green River through Desolation Canyon and will study the human and natural history of the surrounding Tavaputs Plateau. This area in eastern Utah is part of the ancestral territory of Northern Utes. It has been traversed by scientific explorers, ranchers, hunters, prospectors, and river runners for the last century and a half. The area is rich in Fremont archaeological sites, but is now threatened by shale oil and natural gas development. Desolation Canyon is deeper in places than Grand Canyon, and it hosts a remarkably complex assemblage of riparian, desert, and montane ecosystems. The field portion of the course will take place May 28-June 3. *Participation requires a course fee of $895. There will be an on-campus, pre-trip meeting to discuss logistics on Thursday, May 24, from 9-12.
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2.00 Credits
This field-based course will introduce you to the ecology and flora of the Wasatch Front, basic plant anatomy, plant identification and classification, and basic understanding of the major habitat types of the Wasatch Front of Utah.
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2.00 Credits
An experiential course in mindful awareness practice. Meditation practice both inspires and is inspired by our relationships to the natural environment. The practice of meditation has much in common with appreciation of and advocacy for the natural environment. In class meditation instruction, practice, and discussion will focus on the relationships between various meditative experiences and issues of the natural environment, supplemented by weekly readings from the likes of Abbey, Thoreau, Stegner, Berry, Meloy, and others. Sitting, walking, mantra, visualization, and other meditation tactics will be covered. Students will be responsible for written reflection about both their own practice and assigned course reading.
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1.00 Credits
This course takes students into the environment. Academically structured weekend trips and carefully guided service learning opportunities are powerful tools for meeting learning goals like active learning, teamwork, global consciousness, social responsibility, and leadership. ENVI 301 offers our students short, intense learning opportunities where they travel to engage contemporary environmental debates or learn about significant environmental issues. Prerequisites: ENVI 101 or instructor permission.
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1.00 Credits
The Oquirrh mountains, Great Salt Lake, and the West Desert represent the spectrum of land and space uses in the American West. In this field studies course we will examine this range of uses of the land; the production of nature in Bingham Canyon, the sacrificial zones of the Dugway Proving Grounds, and preservation in the West Desert. We'll examine the history of these ideas and see the sights firsthand in order to answer questions about the nature of space in the American West. This course will Include a mandatory camping trip October 2-4, 2015
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2.00 Credits
In 2010, the Navajo Nation began the Navajo San Juan Conservation Initiative in partnership with Round River Conservation Studies to develop and implement a Din Bikyah (people's land) conservation strategy for the public lands in southeastern Utah. Mapping of important cultural areas for the harvesting of traditional herbal medicines is of vital importance for the implementation of plan. Westminster students will assist Navajo elders with mapping these important sites and documenting their habitat characteristics. Students will also learn about the importance of these lands to maintaining Navajo culture and traditions. More information about the Din Bikeyah conservation plan is available at http://utahdinebikeyah.org/
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1.00 Credits
They are called non-native, invasive, introduced and exotic species, but who are they? What makes them so successful while countless other species across the planet go extinct? In this field studies course we will examine these questions by looking at the literature at the level of individual species that are successful invaders, while also investigating what makes some ecosystems more vulnerable to invasives while others resist. We'll participate in the efforts to control non-native species and restore a native ecosystem through work with the National Park Service during our field trip. This course will Include a mandatory field trip, dates TBD
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